Carlos Castro is the President and Chief Financial Officer of Resorts World Las Vegas, the $4.3 billion Genting Berhad-owned megaresort at the north end of the Strip — and he’s held three different title configurations there in the space of about three months. He joined in February 2025 as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer, then was elevated to President and CFO that May when the resort replaced then-CEO Alex Dixon after only a few months in the job. A year later, in March 2026, the Nevada Gaming Commission unanimously approved his gaming license following a suitability hearing in which commissioners specifically credited him with turning around the property’s compliance culture.

Castro’s background sits almost entirely on the finance side of Las Vegas casino operations, with confirmed stops at Hilton Hotels Corporation, Caesars Entertainment, Paris/Bally’s Las Vegas, Mandalay Bay, and Aria Resort & Casino before joining Resorts World. That finance-first résumé is part of why his rapid rise to the top operating job at the property drew industry attention: it put a career CFO in charge of both the finances and the day-to-day operations of a resort still working through the fallout of a major anti-money-laundering enforcement case.

Quick Facts

Full name (per Nevada Gaming Commission filings)	Carlos Robert Castro
Current role	President, Chief Financial Officer, Secretary & Treasurer
Company	Resorts World Las Vegas
Joined as COO & CFO	February 2025
Promoted to President & CFO	May 2025
Nevada gaming license	Unanimously approved by the Nevada Gaming Commission, March 26, 2026
Board / leadership context	Alex Dixon (CEO Jan.–May 2025, now senior advisor to the board), Jim Murren (founding Chairman)
Prior employers (independently confirmed)	MGM Resorts International (Aria Resort & Casino, Mandalay Bay, corporate), Caesars Entertainment, Hilton Hotels Corporation, Paris/Bally’s Las Vegas
Based in	Las Vegas, Nevada
Industry focus	Casino-resort finance and operations, Las Vegas Strip integrated resorts

Current Role at Resorts World Las Vegas

Castro’s tenure at Resorts World has moved through three distinct phases:

February 2025 — COO & CFO. Castro joined in a combined operating and financial role, taking responsibility for the resort’s financial planning, capital investment decisions, and day-to-day operational execution. His mandate at the time covered strategic planning, investment activity, and operational efficiency across the property, working alongside then-CEO Alex Dixon and a newly formed board of directors.

May 2025 — President & CFO. Roughly three months in, Resorts World announced that Dixon — who had only been CEO since January 2025 — would move into a senior advisor role to the board, and that Castro would step up to President while retaining the CFO title. Independent trade and local news coverage (Las Vegas Review-Journal, Casino.org, GGB News, VegasSlotsOnline) framed the move as another round in the resort’s ongoing executive shake-up, with Castro effectively becoming the property’s top operating executive.

2026 — Nevada gaming license approved. As President, Castro was required to obtain his own individual Nevada gaming license. The Nevada Gaming Control Board recommended his licensing on March 12, 2026, and the full Nevada Gaming Commission unanimously approved it on March 26, 2026. During that hearing, Castro told regulators the property was focused on “compliance over commerce,” and commissioners — including Brian Krolicki and Abbi Silver — praised his role in rebuilding the resort’s leadership culture after the 2025 AML settlement.

In hearings and interviews since taking the top job, Castro has also signaled how he’s using the operating side of the role: he told the Nevada Gaming Control Board in March 2026 that Resorts World is “phasing out” its cashless wagering system in favor of traditional cash-in slot play, and he’s discussed the resort’s roughly 46 acres of undeveloped land as a potential site for future development, including speculative talk about an NBA-related venue.

Career History

This chronology is now corroborated by more than just Resorts World’s own hiring announcement — independent trade coverage (GGB News and GGB Magazine specifically) separately confirmed both the roster of prior employers and, in two cases, approximate tenure lengths, without relying on the company’s press release language.

Hilton Hotels Corporation — early finance and hospitality-operations experience, predating his Las Vegas casino-industry roles. Confirmed as an employer by Resorts World’s hiring announcement and independently by GGB Magazine; specific role and dates not independently confirmed.
Caesars Entertainment — held a senior finance and planning role, gaining experience in forecasting and capital investment within a multi-property casino operator. Employer confirmed independently by GGB Magazine; the specific title and 1999–2004 date range circulate only in one third-party profile and have not been independently corroborated.
Paris/Bally’s Las Vegas — held an operations role. This employer is independently confirmed by GGB Magazine (separate from Resorts World’s own announcement and separate from the one detailed profile that supplies a specific title and date range for it); the specific title and dates have not been independently corroborated beyond that single profile.
MGM Resorts International — Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino — Senior Vice President and CFO. Independently corroborated tenure: GGB News reported this as “a nine-and-a-half-year spell,” reported separately from — and roughly consistent with — the “nearly a decade” figure that appears elsewhere. Two independent outlets converging on close to the same length is a meaningfully stronger basis than either alone.
MGM Resorts International (corporate) — held senior corporate roles spanning retail operations and, later, financial planning and analysis. Independently corroborated tenure: GGB News separately reported that Castro spent about 18 months at MGM Resorts International’s corporate offices immediately before joining Aria — roughly consistent with the combined length of the two corporate roles described elsewhere, though we can’t independently confirm the specific role-by-role breakdown (retail COO, then FP&A) or exact date boundaries between the two.
Aria Resort & Casino (MGM Resorts International) — Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. The best-corroborated prior role in his history: Resorts World’s own PR Newswire announcement, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, and GGB News all independently describe this as “more than five years” and credit Castro with driving record profitability through cost management and capital investment. A discrepancy worth flagging: one detailed third-party profile separately states Castro started at Aria in 2015, which — if accurate — would put his actual tenure closer to ten years by the time he left for Resorts World in February 2025, not “more than five.” We can’t resolve which figure is more precise from public sources, so we’re noting the inconsistency rather than picking one.
Resorts World Las Vegas — COO & CFO, February–May 2025; President & CFO since May 2025. See “Current Role” above.

Company Background: Resorts World Las Vegas

Resorts World Las Vegas is a 3,506-room integrated resort on the Las Vegas Strip, owned and operated by Malaysia-based conglomerate Genting Berhad. It opened on June 24, 2021, at a reported construction cost of $4.3 billion, making it the first ground-up resort built on the Strip since the Cosmopolitan in 2010 and one of the most expensive casino-resort developments in Las Vegas history. The property sits on the former site of Boyd Gaming’s long-dormant Echelon project, which Genting acquired in 2013.

The resort houses three Hilton-family hotel brands under one roof — Las Vegas Hilton, Conrad Las Vegas, and the ultra-luxury Crockfords Las Vegas — alongside a 117,000-square-foot casino floor with roughly 1,400 slot machines, 117 table games, a dedicated poker room, and a sportsbook. It’s positioned by its owners as one of the most technology-forward casino floors in Las Vegas, built around cashless wagering and RFID-based bet tracking from opening day.

Castro’s Role in the US Gambling Market

This is the part of Castro’s story that’s specific to Nevada gaming regulation, and it’s worth understanding on its own terms.

The regulatory backdrop. In August 2024, the Nevada Gaming Control Board filed a disciplinary complaint against Resorts World alleging anti-money-laundering compliance failures. The case centered on the property allowing individuals tied to illegal sports bookmaking — including convicted bookmaker Mathew Bowyer, whose activities were separately connected to a high-profile fraud case involving MLB interpreter Ippei Mizuhara — to gamble at the resort without adequate source-of-funds checks. In March 2025, the Nevada Gaming Commission approved a $10.5 million settlement, the second-largest fine in Nevada gaming history behind the 2019 Wynn Resorts penalty. Resorts World’s former president, Scott Sibella, separately pleaded guilty to a federal anti-money-laundering violation tied to his time at both Resorts World and MGM Grand, and had his Nevada gaming license revoked.

Why that matters for Castro’s appointment. As part of the settlement terms, regulators required Resorts World to overhaul its executive leadership. The company responded by installing a new board — chaired initially by former MGM Resorts CEO Jim Murren, and including former Nevada Gaming Control Board chairman A.G. Burnett, former Nevada governor Brian Sandoval, and HR executive Michelle DiTondo — plus a new CEO, Alex Dixon, appointed in January 2025. Castro’s COO/CFO appointment the following month was part of that same regulator-driven leadership rebuild.

The 2026 licensing hearing. As Castro moved into the President role, he became subject to individual licensing by Nevada gaming regulators — a separate, more searching process than a corporate hiring announcement. At his March 2026 suitability hearing, the Nevada Gaming Control Board reviewed his background in detail before recommending approval, and the full Nevada Gaming Commission unanimously approved his license on March 26, 2026. Commissioners were notably complimentary: Brian Krolicki told Castro he was “the right guy at a tough moment,” and Abbi Silver called him “eminently qualified” based on his experience and work ethic. That level of explicit regulatory praise is unusual and worth including precisely because it’s a stronger, more current signal of his standing with Nevada regulators than the 2025 hiring announcements alone.

What this signals about his mandate. Unlike an executive hired purely to grow revenue or expand a property, Castro’s role at Resorts World carries an explicit compliance dimension that Nevada regulators have now formally signed off on. Part of his job is demonstrating that the resort’s financial controls and operational oversight have genuinely changed, not just its org chart — and as of March 2026, the state’s gaming regulators have gone on record saying that’s happened. That context matters for anyone evaluating Resorts World Las Vegas as a property, and it’s why Castro’s career at this company has been covered as ongoing regulatory news rather than a single hiring announcement.

What We Could and Couldn’t Verify

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Independently verified, across multiple sources including Resorts World’s own PR Newswire announcements, Nevada Gaming Control Board and Commission meeting records (including the Commission’s official March 2026 disposition document, which lists him under his full legal name, Carlos Robert Castro), and independent trade/local press (Las Vegas Review-Journal, CasinoBeats, Yogonet, Nevada Current, iGamingBusiness, GGB News, GGB Magazine, CDC Gaming, Casino.org, VegasSlotsOnline):

Castro’s appointment as COO and CFO of Resorts World Las Vegas in February 2025
His promotion to President and CFO in May 2025, replacing Alex Dixon as the property’s top operating executive
The Nevada Gaming Commission’s unanimous approval of his individual gaming license on March 26, 2026
His prior senior role at Aria Resort & Casino as SVP and CFO, for “more than five years”
His approximately nine-and-a-half-year tenure as SVP and CFO at Mandalay Bay, and roughly 18 months in MGM Resorts International corporate roles immediately before Aria — both independently reported by GGB News, separate from the company’s own announcements
His prior employment at Hilton Hotels Corporation, Caesars Entertainment, Paris/Bally’s Las Vegas, and MGM Resorts International — the full roster independently confirmed by GGB Magazine, separate from Resorts World’s own hiring announcement
The regulatory context of his career at Resorts World (the 2024 NGCB complaint, the 2025 $10.5 million settlement, the board/executive overhaul, and the 2026 licensing hearing)
Resorts World Las Vegas’s ownership, opening date, cost, and physical specifications

Reported but not independently corroborated beyond a single detailed profile: the specific 1999–2004 date range and title at Caesars Entertainment, the January 2004–April 2005 date range and title at Paris/Bally’s Las Vegas, and a stated 2015 start date at Aria. That last figure is also in tension with the “more than five years” tenure length that multiple independent outlets use for the same Aria role — if he started in 2015, his actual tenure through February 2025 would be closer to ten years. We’re flagging the discrepancy rather than resolving it in either direction.

Reported by a single low-reliability, crowdsourced business-contact database, not independently corroborated: Castro’s undergraduate education, reported by that database as a 1990–1992 Bachelor of Science in Hotel/Motel Administration/Management from UNLV. We’re including it only because it’s a commonly repeated detail, not because we consider it confirmed.

We have not been able to independently confirm Castro’s age or any compensation details, and haven’t included unverified figures on either.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is Carlos Castro at Resorts World Las Vegas?

Carlos Castro is the President and Chief Financial Officer of Resorts World Las Vegas. He joined in February 2025 as COO and CFO, was promoted to President and CFO in May 2025, and had his individual Nevada gaming license unanimously approved in March 2026 — after more than two decades in Las Vegas casino-resort finance, most recently as SVP and CFO of Aria Resort & Casino.

Why did Carlos Castro’s title change so soon after he joined?

Resorts World replaced then-CEO Alex Dixon with Castro as President just three months after Castro joined as COO/CFO, moving Dixon into a senior advisor role. Independent local and trade coverage described it as another round in the resort’s ongoing post-settlement executive shake-up, with Castro emerging as the property’s top operating executive.

Is Resorts World Las Vegas in regulatory trouble?

Resorts World and its parent, Genting Berhad, settled a Nevada Gaming Control Board complaint in March 2025 for $10.5 million, tied to compliance failures involving illegal bookmakers. As part of the settlement, the resort rebuilt its board and executive team, including hiring Castro. A year later, in March 2026, the Nevada Gaming Commission unanimously approved Castro’s individual license and commissioners praised the resort’s compliance turnaround.

Who owns Resorts World Las Vegas?

Genting Berhad, a publicly traded Malaysian conglomerate, owns and operates Resorts World Las Vegas. The property opened in June 2021 at a reported $4.3 billion cost.

Where did Carlos Castro work before Resorts World Las Vegas?

He most recently served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Aria Resort & Casino, part of MGM Resorts International, and previously held senior roles at Mandalay Bay, MGM’s corporate offices, Caesars Entertainment, Paris/Bally’s Las Vegas, and Hilton Hotels Corporation.

Carlos Castro: President & CFO, Resorts World Las Vegas